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Cloud News Wade Tyler Millward September 27, 2023, 02:00 PM EDT

Major Microsoft Teams updates that start rolling out in October include collaborative notes and controlled-content meeting templates.

Collaborative notes. Controlled-content meeting templates. And leveraging Microsoft Graph for Teams transcripts.

These are some of the biggest updates with rollouts that start in October for Microsofts Teams collaboration application.

The rollout dates come courtesy of the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giants online roadmap for Teams and other applications within the Microsoft 365 suite.

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Some features will work across multiple cloud instances, including Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC), GCC High (GCC-H) and Microsofts cloud for the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

While some of the features will work across a variety of platforms and cloud instances and become generally available in October, others will have a more limited reach.

Some of these upcoming Teams features are meant for the premium version of the app, which Microsoft released earlier this year.

Teams Premium costs $7 a person a month, with other packages available for businesses and personal Teams use.

A free version of Teams is still available with group calling for up to 60 minutes and 100 participants and 5 gigabytes (GB) of cloud storage, according to Microsoft.

Other updates included on this list include:

*Unique links for external presenters

*Text notifications for appointments

*Changes for watermarked meetings

Heres a look at some of the most important Teams updates that start to roll out in October.

Wade Tyler Millward is an associate editor covering cloud computing and the channel partner programs of Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, Salesforce, Citrix and other cloud vendors.He can be reached at wmillward@thechannelcompany.com.

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The 15 Biggest Microsoft Teams Updates In October 2023 - CRN